143 Results for “William Lazonick”
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Where Did You Go, Vice President Joe?
Mar 4, 2022
President Biden’s first SOTU Address was a missed opportunity to say what he knows to be true: Stock buybacks manipulate the market and leave most Americans worse off
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The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
Aug 21, 2023
Stock buybacks as a mode of predatory value extraction
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Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.
Mar 29, 2021
History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy. Antitrust expert Mark Glick explains how the U.S. went astray during the 1980s, and how to get back on track.
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Antitrust Enforcement in the Crosshairs
Oct 6, 2023
Post-Chicago Economists vs. New Brandeisians on the New Merger Guidelines
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General Equilibrium Theory: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing?
Aug 16, 2016
Does general equilibrium theory sufficiently enhance our understanding of the economic process to make the entire exercise worthwhile, if we consider that other forms of thinking may have been ‘crowded out’ as a result of its being the ‘dominant discourse’? What, in the end, have we really learned from it?
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Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis
Jun 29, 2023
The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis
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Externalities and Public Goods: Theory OR Society?
Nov 19, 2015
How much does the standard theory of externalities and public goods really say?
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Podcasts
How the Study of Meaning-Making Will Enrich Economic Analysis
Feb 4, 2021
Robert Akerlof, economics professor at the University of Warwick, discusses his research into issues of self-esteem and values and how such a focus can greatly improve efforts to make sense of economic activity.